Celebration!!!

  We decided this year for Steve's bday to have his family in for a fish/chicken fry and to also celebrate our nieces belated bday that day. Steve has a big family, lots of siblings and it always makes for a fun time. So we told everyone we'd provide the bday cake, homemade biscuits, drinks and fish/chicken...and everyone to bring a dish and a chair and have some fun :)
   There was 33 of us and it went from 2pm to almost 7pm and was a blast. We also had our two best friends and their families so it was nice to catch up.
   We went through 5lbs of chicken tenders and almost 10 lbs of catfish cut up filets!! But a great time was had. Kaya had a ball playing with all the kids...8 of our 9 nieces and nephews made it. Just a great afternoon and though the wind was a bit chilly it went off great :)
   Steve has a neuro apt coming up on the 31st of this month and I know even when it's just a checkup it makes him nervous..so I thought having his family in would rally his support too.
   We talked about it after everyone left and we cleaned up just how nice it was. So we've decided every year once the weather gets nice we are doing a fish/chicken fry pitch in. Even if it's not on his bday we just want the family to get together. Sometimes you just have to put in the elbow grease to make it happen and when you have a split family it's nice to just have one big get together and everyone have a ball.